Successful Team Culture (5cr)

Intro

In this course, you will explore what makes a team truly successful beyond performance — through shared values, trust, and collaboration. You will learn to recognize group dynamics, roles, and stages of development, and reflect on your own behavior as part of a team. The course helps you grow into a more self-aware, value-driven, and effective team member or leader.

Learning objectives

After having completed this course of attained an equivalent competence level, the student:
- Knows how to reflect on the relations between team values and a suitable team culture
- Knows how to evaluate team development process
- Knows how to identify the different stages of group development and various group roles
- Is able to reflect his/her own behavior as a part of the team

Contents

- Tuckman's Stages of Group Development
- Group roles and norms
- Team cohesion
- Team Building
- Developing high performance culture

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

CONTACT / CONTACT BLENDED
Descriptions of implementation methods can be found in Haaga-Helia's website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/implementation-types

You can complete the course unit by demonstrating or by Work&Study even if the course unit doesn't have DEMO or WORKSTUDY implementations. More information about recognition of learning at Haaga-Helia's website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/career-planning/recognition-learning

Learning materials

Articles

Lähtötaso ja sidonnaisuudet muihin opintojaksoihin

No pre-requisites

Assessment criteria - grade 1

When the implementation type of the course is CONTACT, ONLINE or BLENDED it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

The student is able to:
Recognize the relations between team values and a suitable team culture. Describe the basics of team development process and different stages of group development. Identify one's own group role.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

The student is able to:
Describe and evaluate the relations between team values and a suitable team culture. Evaluate team development process and different stages of group development. Identify various group roles. Actively influence the process of developing team culture.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

The student is able to:
Analyze the relations between team values and a suitable team culture, team development process and different stages of group development. Identify and analyze various group roles and one’s own strengths and areas of development in interpersonal communication situations. Actively influence and lead the process of developing team culture.